Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Eclogue

Eclogue , noun

[Latin ecloga, Greek {not transcribed} a selection, choice extracts, from {not transcribed} to pick out, choose out; 'ek out + {not transcribed} to gather, choose: compare French égloque, écloque. See Ex-, and Legend.]

A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.